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Popping good chemistry
Investigate simple chemical reactions, irreversible changes and gases around us with this exciting experiment
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Escape the classroom: and revise chemistry knowledge
Challenge your students to break out of the lab and prepare for exams
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Understanding how students untangle intermolecular forces
Discover how learners use electronegativity to predict the location of dipole−dipole interactions
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8 ways to boost student understanding with examples and non-examples
Help students fully grasp tough chemistry concepts by using example sets to explain them
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5 ways to teach displacement reactions effectively
Spark students’ enthusiasm for this key chemistry topic with these teacher-tested strategies
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Why it’s important to encourage student decision-making in practicals
Improve student engagement, motivation and behaviour by giving them more choice
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Investigating the sugar content and pH of fizzy drinks | 11–14 years
Compare fizzy drinks’ ingredients, acidities and health implications
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Baking investigation | 11–14 years
Discover the purpose of each ingredient and test methods used to make cupcakes
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Encapsulation experiment | 11–14 years
Investigate encapsulation and the role it plays in helping probiotics travel to the gut
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Boost student confidence constructing hypotheses
Ideas to help you teach this essential scientific skill
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Is every substance a molecule?
Use this to help chemistry students accurately apply covalent bonding models
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Analytical chemistry in Ireland
Worksheets, project-based learning tasks and contextualisation stories to develop a core understanding of analytical chemistry
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Mechanistic reasoning in the chemistry classroom
Do teachers need to rethink their explanations depending on their teaching context?
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Ainmhithe agus a ngnáthóga a chosaint | 7–9 mbliana
Nasc do theagasc curaclaim faoi ghnáthóga le comhthéacsanna spéisiúla inbhuanaitheachta. Sa ghréasán topaicí seo, moltar gníomhaíochtaí ranga a bhaineann le gnáthóga na n-órang-útan agus na mbéar bán a chosaint.
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How to teach structure determination post-16
Students find this process puzzling. Help them solve it with these ideas and tips
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Truailleáin a chruthaítear de bharr athruithe ceimiceacha | 9–11 bhliain
Nasc do theagasc curaclaim faoi athruithe ceimiceacha le comhthéacsanna spéisiúla inbhuanaitheachta. Sa ghréasán topaicí seo, moltar gníomhaíochtaí ranga a bhaineann le díghrádú plaisteach agus cócaireacht ghlan.
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Diogelu anifeiliaid a’u cynefinoedd | 7–9 oed
Cysylltwch eich darpariaeth addysgu ar gyfer y cwricwlwm ynghylch cynefinoedd â chyd-destunau cynaliadwyedd diddorol. Mae’r we pynciau hon yn cynnig gweithgareddau yn yr ystafell ddosbarth sy’n gysylltiedig â diogelu cynefinoedd yr orang-wtang a’r arth wen.
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Llygryddion a gynhyrchir gan newidiadau cemegol | 9–11 oed
Cysylltwch eich darpariaeth addysgu ar gyfer y cwricwlwm ynghylch newidiadau cemegol â chyd-destunau cynaliadwyedd diddorol. Mae’r we pynciau hon yn cynnig gweithgareddau yn yr ystafell ddosbarth sy’n gysylltiedig â diraddiad plastig a choginio glân.
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Same molecule, different representations
Chemistry is full of varied representations. How do we help our students identify the information encoded within them?
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Topic web
Pollutants produced by chemical changes | 9–11 years
Connect your curriculum teaching on chemical changes to engaging sustainability contexts. This topic web suggests classroom activities linked to plastic degradation and clean cooking.